From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/9944 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William F Hammond Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: mailcap/mime types Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:48:12 -0500 Organization: Dept of Math & Stat, Univ at Albany (SUNY), Albany, NY Message-ID: References: <5ph16lFr63voU1@mid.uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195674040 28408 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2007 19:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 19:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 21 20:40:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IuvR9-0006NJ-Bo for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:40:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IuvQv-0004wm-EW for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:40:25 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feed.xsnews.nl!border-2.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder.news-service.com!sn-xt-ams-06!sn-xt-ams-05!sn-post-ams-02!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OBOKgIEBTcRXn/5QlMxu2WZoQQM= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 21 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:80153 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:9944 Archived-At: Reiner Steib writes: > On Thu, Nov 08 2007, Richard G Riley wrote: >> ... >> What would the .mailcap entry to match this similar to: >> >> video/x-ms-wmv;/usr/local/bin/mplayer %s > > It would be ... > application/octet-stream; /usr/local/bin/mplayer %s But in .mailcap this would cause mplayer to be spawned for all instances of application/octet-stream, which is a catch-all content-type for "binary" things of whatever nature. My sense is that this content-type is used when the content-provider expects the user to download and save or when the content-provider does not know what content-type to use. -- Bill